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TIL Aldous Huxley got LSD injected by his wife right before he died

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ZYOG TIL In 1518, a “dancing plague” struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
dPDd TIL of the Aztec Death Whistle. It is a skull shaped wood whistle, that sounds like someone screaming. It was used to intimidate their enemies during war.
nnEr TIL until he turned 12, Robert Pattinson’s elder sisters dressed him up as a girl and introduced him as “Claudia” to strangers
wr4o TIL that there an African Union similar to the EU, and it plans to introduce a currency by 2023 called the Afro.
G0Q4 TIL American chemist Henry Eyring did not receive the Nobel Prize for his development of transition state theory of chemical reactions. Several chemists would go on to win Nobel prizes for work based on his theory.